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They are still working on those pre orders. What will happen when the pre orders end? The production volume will go down big time IMO. Most people who wanted a Model 3 have already ordered. Not sure how you expect those numbers to grow or even remain constant after the preorders are finished. Not to mention that a lot of the latter in that list will want the short range battery, which might not YET be profitable.

[noreen]

No response?

What do you think? After they've finished fulfilling how many ever pre-orders they have total (maybe 400k let's say after all the cancellations), how will they possibly keep up the volume? They're busy now, because the 400k+ orders are from people who have NEVER IN THEIR LIFE HAD AN EV. So these people are all buying now, because it just became available to them. It's kind of like Christmas time for toys, but this Tesla rush obviously is lasting for however long it takes for them to build all these 400k+ cars.

But the volume is obviously going to slow down in 2019. If you disagree, why and how am I wrong?

So how are they going to be profitable in 2019?